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“Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.”

Home America Black Standing Gold Slavery Seeds Ivory

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.”

Knows Men May Doe Matter Evil Loses Mistake He Man Masters Gold Slavery Noble Hypocrisy Infamy

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.”

Men Mind Home Left Pleasure Gold Increase England Paid Slavery Stranger Rage Treasure Coast Forlorn

Book:The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.”

Men States Freedom Gold Slavery Simplicity Shelter Marble

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?”

Way Gold Slavery Chains Iron Bondage

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.”

Heart May Home Blood Gold Slavery Rounds Lovely Treasure Cracks Whips Footsteps

Author:Lydia M. Child